So I got it to work by changing the tello.py file
https://github.com/damiafuentes/DJITelloPy/blob/aad98c1e8d8fd916112e7e52eba1318398adb6ad/djitellopy/tello.py#L930
in line 930 I changed the if statement to a while statement for grabbing the first frame. It appears that my computer took longer...